Cooking with Care
You may have heard about how food tastes better when it’s made with the intangible ingredients of care and love. I’ve been thinking about...
Multiple Stomachs
My dad often likes to say that he has a separate stomach for dessert. Perhaps you’ve experienced this, too, or know someone else who...
Do We Need Dessert?
Note: For more information about the Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating program, visit www.AmIHungry.com, or my website. Last week’s episode of...
What I Take For Granted
It is so easy to take things for granted, to forget that what we have in our lives is not a given. Until something reminds us. For me,...
Bill Nye and Fad Diets
What’s a calorie? Do fad diets work? What (if anything) is so great about the Paleo Diet? These are some of the questions Bill Nye looked...


Katahdin Stream Falls
One of the first times I went up to Katahdin Stream Falls, my dad worried it might kill me because I was so red and breathing so hard. I...
Focusing on What I Have
Have you ever found yourself focusing so much on what you don’t have that you forget to notice what you already have? I’ve been thinking...


The Sinful Kitchen
For my birthday last week, a friend offered to take me out to lunch. At first, though, I was tempted to say no. It is, after all,...


Embodied
My church has been using a theme-based approach this year, and this month our theme is Embodiment. This is appropriate for me, since...


Putting It In Context
I hate being micromanaged. That’s why, in retrospect, I should have realized from the start that diets wouldn’t work for me. It also...